Reflektor’s collision of familiarities, arty pretentions, lengthy tracks, unwillingness to explain itself (and the winks it delivers when it seems to)… amounts to an album that, while rarely a difficult listen, rejects easy understanding.

Non-album tracks are probably getting out to more people, more quickly, than ever before. But rarely are these songs transcendent, or suggestive of exciting alternate routes for these bands. They feel like what they actually are: musical almost-rans.